In a day and age when it’s commonplace to see PGA Tour execs carrying their footwear in a single hand and a launch monitor within the different, Chandler Phillips defies that conference.
By no means thoughts that the 2023 Korn Ferry Tour graduate likely received’t contact his golf equipment for the subsequent month and a half earlier than his debut as a PGA Tour member on the Sony Open. On this week’s episode of GOLF Subpar, Phillips advised co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz he not often makes use of launch displays.
“Nothing in opposition to it,” Phillips mentioned. “I feel it’s all nice know-how, however I don’t use it. Yeah, it’s simply I’ve all the time been type of a really feel participant. The one time I’ve actually used it’s wedges and stuff like that. However I don’t sit on the vary lots. My follow is plenty of enjoying.”
In an period when Tour execs usually spend hours upon hours on the vary with launch displays and different know-how in order that they know simply how far each membership flies, listening to that one not often makes use of one is a shock. At some occasions, you might even see execs utilizing two completely different launch displays to get dialed.
Tour rookie Chandler Phillips received’t contact his golf equipment for months. Sure, actually
However Phillips, a former three-time All-American at Texas A&M, mentioned he solely makes use of them for wedge pictures as a result of that’s the place he feels he positive factors probably the most from follow. He talked about he’s not a protracted hitter by Tour requirements — he was 99th on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2023 — and getting dialed along with his wedges is the place he’ll choose up strokes.
“If I follow my chipping and placing to the place I really feel snug, the place it’s nearly as good as you may get for me, I really feel like I can go hit 9, ten greens a spherical and nonetheless submit a quantity,” Phillips mentioned. “If I stripe it, then I really feel like I can go actually low.”
Phillips additionally revealed he defies conference in one other approach: he at present has no swing coach.
He used to have a coach from his hometown, however he’s now not within the golf business. Nevertheless, Phillips and his coach labored collectively for therefore lengthy that he appears like he has sufficient to fall again on if something ever goes awry.
“I type of already know what it’s and I have already got one thing that I can work in direction of getting it again to the place I wanted to be,” Phillips mentioned.
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